He Took $6.2 Million From 199 People. The Court Just Handed Him a $31 Million Bill. EvilCorporations.com • Case No. EP-21-CV-00237-DCG • 18 min read TL;DR Abner Alejandro Tinoco, operating through his company Kikit & Mess Investments, LLC, defrauded 199…
EvilCorporations.com • Docket No. CAA-04-2024-0304(b) | Florence, Kentucky • 27 min read SFC Global’s Kentucky Plant Failed Basic Chemical Safety Tests Eight safety violations found at a facility storing 146,200 pounds of a gas that can kill you in seconds.…
Financial Fraud • Market Integrity • Regulatory Capture Who Watches the Watchmen? FINRA Fails to Deter IAA’s Market Misconduct EvilCorporations.com • AWC No. 2023077021801 / CRD No. 10645 • 7 min read TL;DR International Assets Advisory, LLC (IAA), a retail…
EPA Enforcement • Clean Air Act • Docket CAA-05-2025-0006 The Ozone Paper Trail Gold Medal Service Didn’t Keep A New Jersey HVAC giant got caught operating without legally required refrigerant disposal records. The EPA fined them $101,295. The ozone layer…
SEC Enforcement Action • Securities Fraud • Case 2:25-cv-01043-DMF Cannabis Hype, Empty Promises, and a Man Who Spent Your Retirement at the Casino EvilCorporations.com • SEC v. Spargo, CannaCloud, Inc., and D.A. Spargo & Co., LLC • 21 min read…
CFTC Docket No. 24-30 • Commodities Fraud • Energy Markets How Aspire Commodities Turned Natural Gas Into a Weapon of Profit EvilCorporations.com • CFTC Docket No. 24-30 • 12 min read TL;DR Aspire Commodities LLC, a derivatives trading firm operating…
TL;DR: According to a legal complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, real estate developer Joshua Schuster and his company, Silverback, stand accused of orchestrating a brazen fraud. They raised over $6 million from investors for a high-end Manhattan…
TL;DR Cunningham Energy, LLC, a West Virginia oil and gas company, and its parent corporation Houston Natural Resources Corp (a Nevada company based in Houston, Texas) reached a settlement with the EPA on June 28, 2024, for eleven separate Clean…
EvilCorporations.com • FTC Docket No. 192-3157 • 23 min read The Real Cost of “Affordable” LASIK Under Corporate Greed How LCA-Vision, operating as LasikPlus and Joffe MediCenter, ran a documented bait-and-switch scheme on people’s eyes — and kept doing it…
FINRA Enforcement • AWC No. 2022076365001 • Wall Township, NJ CIM Securities and the Exploitation Machine of Deregulated Finance EvilCorporations.com • FINRA AWC No. 2022076365001 • 14 min read TL;DR CIM Securities, LLC, a small New Jersey brokerage firm, sold…